Now on Amazon Prime Video [ Ссылка ] Award Winning untold story of World War 2, looking at the Nazi persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses as seen through the eyes of a schoolgirl. Jehovah's Witnesses were among the first prisoners of concentration camps for their refusal to say "Heil Hitler", join the army, or participate in the Nazi way of life.

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Based on the book "Facing The Lion" - Memoirs of a Girl in Nazi Europe by Simone Arnold Liebster

Simone Arnold is an ordinary schoolgirl. Spirited. Stubborn. Then the Nazis march in, demanding conformity. Friends become enemies. Teachers spout Nazi propaganda. Simone's family refuse to heil Hitler as Germany's saviour. They are Jehovah's Witnesses, and reject Nazi racism and violence. Simone has a choice to make. Follow the Nazis and live or follow her conscience and the consequences.

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***Ffresh Film Doc Award 2013 Winner ***
*** Ffresh Works Film Award Winner***
"The investigation of the story was thorough and compelling and I was left wanting to find out more on the subject. The management of the archive material was intriguing and the edit flowed beautifully. The sound design and music were also well managed with considered intelligence." - Andrew Kötting, Award winning filmmaker and Ffresh Film Awards 2013 Judge

Directed by Royal Television Society award winning filmmaker Jonny Lewis and Aiden Bloodworth.
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The Schoolgirl The Nazis and The Purple Triangles is the autobiographical account of a young girl's courage in the face of insurmountable odds. Set during the Nazi occupation of Eastern France, it tells the story of one 12-year-old's struggle to follow her conscience rather than give in to Nazi propaganda and persecution.

12 year old Simone Arnold continually refuses to give the Heil Hitler salute while at school. "Heil Hitler" means "salvation belongs to Hitler". As a Jehovah's Witness, Simone and her family consider given the Heil Hitler salute to be idolatry. Finally Simone is given an ultimatum. She is given five minutes to give the salute in front of Hitlers picture and in front of all her fellow students, or face expulsion from school, arrest and separation from her family.

In the Nazi years, about 10,000 Witnesses, most of them of German nationality, were imprisoned in concentration camps. An estimated 2,500 to 5,000 Witnesses died in the camps or prisons. More than 200 men were tried by the German War Court and executed for refusing military service.

Jehovah's Witnesses story in World War 2 is unique in many ways, due to the fact that they were persecuted by the Nazis for refusing to give the Heil Hitler salute and refusal to do military service, while at the same time in the United States, Jehovah's Witnesses were also persecuted and imprisoned for their refusal to give the pledge of allegiance to the American flag or join the army. Similar things happened in Britain and other Allied Nations.

In concentration camps Jehovah's Witnesses, unlike Jews and other prisoners, had, according to Professor Christine King, "a unique and fairly easy way to get out". All they had to do was sign a document renouncing their faith. Only a handful ever did.

Simone's honesty about her joys and fears and her harrowing experiences at school and in a Nazi prison have appealed to thousands of readers of her book "Facing The Lion", many of whom are young people themselves, struggling with similar peer pressure today. The film "The Schoolgirl The Nazis and The Purple Triangles" features dramatic reconstructions, historical archive film, interview footage with Simone Arnold Liebster, and historical background from Professor Christine King CBE, President of Staffordshire University and is directed by Royal Television Society Award winner Jonny Lewis.

The Open University and Yad Vashem in Israel featured a portion of the film in recent presentations on "Non-Jewish victims of the Nazi regime" and parts of the film have been screened by National Israeli television. The film has also been used around the world in schools by teachers of the Holocaust as well as by the Arnold-Liebster Foundation in educating students about the Nazi persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The film is also available at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Beyond Camps And Forced Labour 2018 screened the documentary as part of The Nazis and The Purple Triangles Panel 22 Thursday, 11th Jan 2018 (Thursday, 15:30-17:00) [ Ссылка ]

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